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Captain Kirk puts Doctor McCoy in charge of the *Enterprise* to smooth the planet Flyspeck’s accession to the Federation. With Kirk missing and regulations forbidding a handover to Spock, McCoy must steer the starship through political turmoil and Klingon demands. The mystery deepens as it emerges that Kirk was lost in Flyspeck’s time‑stream, a planet unbound by linear time.
First publish date: 1990
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Diane Duane
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